Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five malicious Rust crates that masquerade as time-related utilities to transmit .env file data to the threat actors.

The Rust packages, published to crates.io, are listed below -


chrono_anchor

dnp3times

time_calibrator

time_calibrators

time-sync


The crates, per Socket, impersonate timeapi.io and were published between late February and early March